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Volker Loeschcke

Volker Loeschcke

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
87
Citations
27174
World Ranking
557
National Ranking
12

Overview

Volker Loeschcke is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark. Their research primarily spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, they focus on several subfields including Insect Science, Genetics, Ecology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work encompasses multiple main topics related to insect biology and physiology, including Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Insect Utilization and Effects, Insect Symbiosis and Bacterial Influences, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Mads F. Schou, Jesper Givskov Sørensen, Martin Kapun, Jorge Vieira, and Maaria Kankare.

Volker Loeschcke has published extensively across several scientific journals and platforms. Notable recurring publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Insect Physiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among their recent scientific articles are:

  • Genomic Analysis of European Drosophila melanogaster Populations Reveals Longitudinal Structure, Continent-Wide Selection, and Previously Unknown DNA Viruses (2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • Drosophila Evolution over Space and Time (DEST): A New Population Genomics Resource (2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • The discovery, distribution, and diversity of DNA viruses associated with Drosophila melanogaster in Europe (2021, Virus Evolution)
  • A functional study of the role of Turandot genes in Drosophila melanogaster: An emerging candidate mechanism for inducible heat tolerance (2022, Journal of Insect Physiology)
  • Fungal infections lead to shifts in thermal tolerance and voluntary exposure to extreme temperatures in both prey and predator insects (2021, Scientific Reports)

Best Publications

  • The evolutionary and ecological role of heat shock proteins

    Jesper Givskov Sørensen;Torsten Nygaard Kristensen;Volker Loeschcke

  • Adaptation of Drosophila to temperature extremes: bringing together quantitative and molecular approaches

    Ary A. Hoffmann;Jesper G. Sørensen;Volker Loeschcke

  • Upper thermal limits of Drosophila are linked to species distributions and strongly constrained phylogenetically

    Vanessa Kellermann;Johannes Overgaard;Ary A. Hoffmann;Camilla Fløjgaard

  • Conservation genetics in transition to conservation genomics

    N. Joop Ouborg;Cino Pertoldi;Volker Loeschcke;Rudolf Bijlsma

  • Environmental stress, adaptation and evolution: an overview

    R. Bijlsma;Volker Loeschcke

  • Genetic erosion impedes adaptive responses to stressful environments.

    Rudolf Bijlsma;Volker Loeschcke

  • Correlated responses to selection for stress resistance and longevity in a laboratory population of Drosophila melanogaster.

    O. A. Bubliy;V. Loeschcke

  • Costs and Benefits of Activation of the Heat-Shock Response in Drosophila melanogaster

    R. A. Krebs;V. Loeschcke

  • Phylogenetic constraints in key functional traits behind species' climate niches: patterns of desiccation and cold resistance across 95 Drosophila species.

    Vanessa Kellermann;Volker Loeschcke;Ary A. Hoffmann;Torsten Nygaard Kristensen

  • Metabolomic profiling of rapid cold hardening and cold shock in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Johannes Overgaard;Anders Malmendal;Jesper G. Sørensen;Jacob G. Bundy

  • Changes in membrane lipid composition following rapid cold hardening in Drosophila melanogaster

    Johannes Overgaard;Jesper G. Sørensen;Søren O. Petersen;Volker Loeschcke

  • Genomic signatures of local directional selection in a high gene flow marine organism; the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).

    Einar E Nielsen;Jakob Hemmer-Hansen;Nina A Poulsen;Nina A Poulsen;Volker Loeschcke

  • Induced thermotolerance and associated expression of the heat‐shock protein Hsp70 in adult Drosophila melanogaster

    J. Dahlgaard;V. Loeschcke;P. Michalak;J. Justesen

  • Marine landscapes and population genetic structure of herring (Clupea harengus L.) in the Baltic Sea

    Hanne B. H. Jorgensen;Michael M. Hansen;Dorte Bekkevold;Daniel E. Ruzzante

  • Costs and benefits of cold acclimation in field released Drosophila

    Torsten N Kristensen;Ary A Hoffmann;Johannes Overgaard;Jesper Givskov Sørensen

  • Full genome gene expression analysis of the heat stress response in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Jesper G. Sørensen;Morten M. Nielsen;Morten M. Nielsen;Mogens Kruhøffer;Just Justesen;Just Justesen

  • How to assess Drosophila cold tolerance: chill coma temperature and lower lethal temperature are the best predictors of cold distribution limits

    Jonas L. Andersen;Tommaso Manenti;Jesper G. Sørensen;Heath A. MacMillan

  • Analysis of microsatellite DNA from old scale samples of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar: a comparison of genetic composition over 60 years

    Einar Eg Nielsen;Michael Møller Hansen;V. Loeschcke

  • Mitochondrial DNA Variability in Italian and East European Wolves: Detecting the Consequences of Small Population Size and Hybridization

    Ettore Randi;Vittorio Lucchini;Mads Fjeldsø Christensen;Nadia Mucci

  • Genetic variation in thermal tolerance among natural populations of Drosophila buzzatii: down regulation of Hsp70 expression and variation in heat stress resistance traits

    J. G. Sørensen;J. Dahlgaard;V. Loeschcke

Frequent Co-Authors

Cino Pertoldi
Cino Pertoldi Aalborg University
Torsten Nygaard Kristensen
Torsten Nygaard Kristensen Aalborg University
Jesper Givskov Sørensen
Jesper Givskov Sørensen Aarhus University
Johannes Overgaard
Johannes Overgaard Aarhus University
Michael Møller Hansen
Michael Møller Hansen Aarhus University
Ary A. Hoffmann
Ary A. Hoffmann University of Melbourne
Ettore Randi
Ettore Randi Aalborg University
Martin Holmstrup
Martin Holmstrup Aarhus University
Robert A. Krebs
Robert A. Krebs Cleveland State University
Søren Faurby
Søren Faurby University of Gothenburg

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